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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Tim Tebow said he has proven his ability as NFL quarterback. (Drew Hallowell/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tim Tebow told one of his biggest critics that he has already proven himself as an NFL quarterback.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tebow appeared on a segment of &lt;em&gt;Boomer &amp;amp; Carton&lt;/em&gt; on WFAN radio despite Boomer Esiason's open skepticism of his NFL quarterbacking abilities, going so far as to suggest the Jets cut him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;From SportsRadioInterviews.com:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does it mean more to hear people say Tim Tebow NFL quarterback or Tim Tebow NFL player?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CI think more than anything you would want someone to say \u2018there\u2019s someone that helps the team win football games.\u2019 That\u2019s ultimately why you play the game is to win and however I can help a team win football games, that\u2019s what I want to do. It\u2019s been my dream since I was six-years-old to be an NFL quarterback and I\u2019m very thankful I have gotten the opportunity to live that dream and I\u2019m continuing to live that dream.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How he would classify himself:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;\u201CI consider myself a quarterback that they ask me to do other things to help this team. If I have the ability and attributes to go do something else and help this team then I\u2019m going to put my heart and soul into doing that.\u201D&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If he felt the playoff win over the Steelers was the validation he was looking for:&lt;/strong&gt;\n&lt;em&gt;\u201CI don\u2019t think it was just that moment. I think it was the six game winning streak, I think it was some of the come-from-behind wins, I think it was helping lead my team to a playoff game and then it was great playing the number one defense in the NFL in our stadium and being able to win a big playoff game and then go play Tom Brady and the Patriots but there were a lot of special things last season. That\u2019s in the past.\u201D&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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